[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 120 (Friday, June 21, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52037-52038]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13525]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice To Hold Proceeding in Abeyance

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                                                   Docket Nos.
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Midcontinent Independent System          EL15-68-003.
 Operator, Inc.
Otter Tail Power Co. v. Midcontinent     EL15-36-003, ER16-696-004.
 Independent System Operator, Inc.
Midcontinent Independent System          EL15-68-003, EL15-68-004.
 Operator, Inc.
Otter Tail Power Co. v. Midcontinent     EL15-36-003, EL15-36-004.
 Independent System Operator, Inc.
Midcontinent Independent System          ER16-696-004, ER16-696-005,
 Operator, Inc.                           ER18-2513-000.
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    In American Clean Power Ass'n v. FERC, the United States Court of 
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit remanded to the Commission 
certain orders \1\ concerning transmission owner (TO) Initial Funding 
\2\ in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO) 
region.\3\ The American Clean Power remand proceeding is pending before 
the Commission.
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    \1\ Midcontinent Indep. Sys. Operator, Inc., 164 FERC ] 61,158 
(2018); Midcontinent Indep. Sys. Operator, Inc., 169 FERC ] 61,233 
(2019).
    \2\ Under TO Initial Funding, the transmission owner 
unilaterally elects to initially fund the network upgrade capital 
costs that it incurs to provide interconnection service to the 
interconnection customer, and the transmission owner subsequently 
recovers the network upgrade capital costs through charges that 
provide a return on and of these network upgrade capital costs from 
the interconnection customer. Midcontinent Indep. Sys. Operator, 
Inc., 187 FERC ] 61,170, at P 1 n.1 (2024) (Order to Show Cause).
    \3\ American Clean Power Ass'n v. FERC, 54 F.4th 722, 728 (2022) 
(American Clean Power remand proceeding).
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    On June 13, 2024, the Commission issued the Order to Show Cause 
finding that the existing open access transmission tariffs of certain 
regional transmission organizations and independent system operators, 
including MISO, appear to be unjust, unreasonable, and unduly 
discriminatory or preferential because they include provisions for 
transmission owners to unilaterally elect TO Initial Funding.\4\
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    \4\ Order to Show Cause, 187 FERC ] 61,170 at P 1.
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    Upon consideration, given the common issues raised in the American 
Clean Power remand proceeding and the Order to Show Cause proceeding, 
notice is hereby given that the American Clean Power remand proceeding 
is held in abeyance pending the outcome of the Order to Show Cause 
proceeding.

    Dated: June 13, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-13525 Filed 6-20-24; 8:45 am]
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